Global Patent Index - EP 0878554 A3

EP 0878554 A3 20011128 - Detection of nucleic acids by fluorescence quenching

Title (en)

Detection of nucleic acids by fluorescence quenching

Title (de)

Nachweis von Nukleinsäuren durch Aufhebung der Fluoreszenz

Title (fr)

Détection d'acids nucléiques basée sur l'extinction de la fluorescence

Publication

EP 0878554 A3 20011128 (EN)

Application

EP 98108491 A 19980511

Priority

US 85508597 A 19970513

Abstract (en)

[origin: US6054279A] Single-stranded signal primers are modified by linkage to two dyes which form a donor/acceptor dye pair. The two dyes are positioned in sufficiently close spatial proximity on the signal primer that the fluorescence of the first dye is quenched by the second dye. The signal primer may further comprise a restriction endonuclease recognition site (RERS) between the two dyes. As the signal primer is initially single-stranded and remains single-stranded in the absence of target, the restriction endonuclease recognition site is not cleavable or nickable by the restriction endonuclease. In the presence of target, however, signal primer and the restriction endonuclease recognition site are rendered double-stranded and cleavable or nickable by the restriction endonuclease. Cleavage or nicking separates the two dyes and a change in fluorescence due to decreased quenching is detected as an indication of the presence of the target sequence or of target sequence amplification.

IPC 1-7

C12Q 1/68

IPC 8 full level

G01N 21/64 (2006.01); C07H 21/00 (2006.01); C12N 15/09 (2006.01); C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); G01N 33/58 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

C12Q 1/6818 (2013.01 - EP US); C12Q 1/6825 (2013.01 - EP US)

C-Set (source: EP US)

  1. C12Q 1/6818 + C12Q 2531/119
  2. C12Q 1/6825 + C12Q 2561/113 + C12Q 2531/113 + C12Q 2521/301

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

US 6054279 A 20000425; CA 2236616 A1 19981113; CA 2236616 C 20020423; DE 69837125 D1 20070405; DE 69837125 T2 20071213; DE 69837125 T3 20170831; EP 0878554 A2 19981118; EP 0878554 A3 20011128; EP 0878554 B1 20070221; EP 0878554 B2 20170322; JP 3477366 B2 20031210; JP H11123083 A 19990511; US 5846726 A 19981208; US 5919630 A 19990706

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 12091698 A 19980720; CA 2236616 A 19980504; DE 69837125 T 19980511; EP 98108491 A 19980511; JP 12706898 A 19980511; US 18603098 A 19981104; US 85508597 A 19970513